Tag: Team

July 7, 2020 / NASA

Building NASA’s Psyche: Design Done, Now Full Speed Ahead on Hardware

The mission to explore a metal-rich asteroid is pivoting from planning the details to building real pieces of the spacecraft puzzle. Psyche, the NASA mission to explore a metal-rock asteroid...
A chart of psyche PDR dates and locations.

October 24, 2018 / Lindy Elkins-Tanton

PDR Season

It’s the festive completion of the mission’s formulation stage What’s a PDR? A Preliminary Design Review. The objective is to evaluate the project’s readiness to proceed with implementation,...
This photograph shows Lindy Elkins-Tanton, Thomas Zurbuchen, and Don Johanson standing in front of a lighted orb in the gallery of ASU's School of Earth and Space Exploration.

January 3, 2018 / Lindy Elkins-Tanton

Happy Birthday Psyche: Year 1

We were selected for flight January 4, 2017…what have we been doing this year?

This image shows an imagined starry background with a football superimposed, along with Earth, the moon, and a comet. The football has the NASA logo on it.

October 23, 2017 / Lindy Elkins-Tanton

Is it Football or is it Rocket Science?

One August morning this year I got an email saying, “Did you hear President Crow challenged the football team to perform as well as Psyche team?” What?

This image shows the Principal Investigator, Lindy Elkins-Tanton, and other members of the team.

August 22, 2017 / Lindy Elkins-Tanton

The day that NASA called

This is the Facebook post that I wrote that day, January 4, 2017: I just looked up and it is now dark out, and 8:00 at night…the day has more than flown, it has evaporated.

This artist's rendition depicts the Psyche asteroid being bombarded.

August 15, 2017 / Lindy Elkins-Tanton

Waiting

This is the Facebook post that I wrote three days before selection, January 1, 2017…